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Monday, March 5, 2012

Wyatt Scrapbook - So What is Left?

In November 2011, I purchased a scrapbook at an antiques mall in Carson, California. The scrapbook is believed to have belonged to Laurine Wyatt. I am transcribing the articles and documents contained in the scrapbook with the hope that it may be of value to genealogists who may be researching the individuals named.

Over the past two weeks, I posted the few items from the
scrapbook that directly mentioned Laurine Wyatt. So what is left?

There are photo corners glued in the scrapbook that now hold
nothing so certainly there were other items; I imagine those items were of some
value to the individual who last owned the scrapbook.

There are additional items that, in my estimation, lack
genealogical value in the sense they do not report vital events in the lives of
individuals. But certainly those items represent people, places and events that
were meaningful to Laurine.

While working with the scrapbook, I have done some research
on Laurine Wyatt that is posted on a public member tree at
Ancestry.com. From what I have been able to determine, she never married and
has no direct descendants.

Over the next few months, I plan to continue to research
Laurine’s life. I also plan to assemble a digital scrapbook containing all of
the contents of the physical scrapbook. (I welcome any suggestions for the best
place to publish such a digital scrapbook; I would like for it to be accessible
free of charge.)

My hope is that one of Laurine Wyatt’s distant
cousins will someday claim her legacy.